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Pi Zero Cluster

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I spotted this project from Koichi Nakamura

A mother board approach to a Pi Zero cluster

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https://twitter.com/9_ties/status/689707306494271488

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  • Yes Andy stick 30++ PI Zeros which are either unobtainium or £30 ea from Cool components then stick them in an expensive carrier board then you too can have a cluster with the same compute power of an 5 year old Atom CPU image

     

     

    Nice toy but Clusters of RPIs are a joke and merely noise to stop us looking at any number of much better boards out there!

  • in reply to Problemchild

    John Alexander wrote:

    you too can have a cluster with the same compute power of an 5 year old Atom CPU

    If you manage to get the videocore to "do your work" the raspberry pi is QUITE economic in terms of performance per dollar. Or performance per Watt. 24 Gflops for a raspberry pi, 500 Gflops for a xeon. At $10 per node (5 for the RPI, 5 for the SDcard) a 20-node RPI cluster would in theory achieve similar performance as a hefty xeon. I think those xeons would cost more than $200, and similarly, at 1W per node, the rpi's would also be more energy efficient.

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  • in reply to Problemchild

    John Alexander wrote:

    you too can have a cluster with the same compute power of an 5 year old Atom CPU

    If you manage to get the videocore to "do your work" the raspberry pi is QUITE economic in terms of performance per dollar. Or performance per Watt. 24 Gflops for a raspberry pi, 500 Gflops for a xeon. At $10 per node (5 for the RPI, 5 for the SDcard) a 20-node RPI cluster would in theory achieve similar performance as a hefty xeon. I think those xeons would cost more than $200, and similarly, at 1W per node, the rpi's would also be more energy efficient.

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  • in reply to rew

    Indeed "If you manage to get the videocore to "do your work" the raspberry pi is QUITE economic"

    IF !!

     

    That was a big custom PCB that guy made as well by the time you add that in then you are probably better off using a cluster of Tamagotchi!

     

    Really... lets admit it  a cluster of these is useless except in bragging rights that you have a cluster of them

  • in reply to Problemchild

    BTW you CAN have a cluster of Tamocochi!!!!!!

    http://hackaday.com/2015/11/24/building-the-infinite-matrix-of-tamagotchis/